Individual Responsibility and Resistance During the Holocaust
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Laura Pritchard,
Nansemond-Suffolk Academy, Suffolk, Virginia
RESOURCES AND HANDOUTS: SPECIFIC RESOURCES
(Note: This list is NOT all-inclusive)
- Mordecai Anielewicz: Anielewicz's letter: excerpt can be found at http://english.gfh.org.il/mordechai_anielewicz.htm; additional biographical information can be found at http://www.jdl.org/misc/heroes/
- Vladka Meed's memoir On Both Sides of the Wall, excerpt "The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising" in mages from the Holocaust; a personal history and video http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/phistories/
- Hirsh Glik's Song of the Partisans, a recording, can be found at http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/music/never.php and his poem "Silence, and a Starry Night" in Images from the Holocaust
- Vilna Partisan Manifesto in USHMM publication Resistance during the Holocaust
- Abba Kovner: a quotation (scroll down) http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/faq/
- Sobibór: photograph of survivors at http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005192
- Information on Rosa Robota can be found at http://www.interlog.com/%7Emighty/special/rosa.htm
- The story of the White Rose and their leaflets and court testimony can be found at http://www.historyplace.com/pointsofview/white-rose1.htm and http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/gill-white-rose.html
- Information on Dietrich Bonhoeffer can be found at http://www.gospelcom.net/chi/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps063.shtml, http://www.dbonhoeffer.org/who-was-db2.htm, and http://www.ushmm.org/bonhoeffer/b1.htm
- Spiritual resistance in ghettos http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/index.php?ModuleId=10005416
- Document on life in the Warsaw ghetto http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/document/DocRing1.htm
- Information on Emanuel Ringelblum can be found at http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/buchach/buc212.html (scroll down to find two articles)
- Information on Janusz Korczak can be found at http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/people/korczak.htm
- Information on Hannah Szenes (Senesh) can be found at http://www.jdl.org/misc/heroes/ and Szenes’s I Gambled on What Mattered Most in Images from the Holocaust; a quotation (scroll down) http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/faq/
- Information on Haviva Reik can be found at http://www.interlog.com/%7Emighty/valor/bios6.htm
- Brief profile and photograph of Ella Gartner can be found at http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/08518.htm
- USHMM map animation on resistance http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/maps/(scroll down to “Resistance” animation)
